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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Military Review, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles.

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My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Full Spectrum Defense

If Russia tried their subliminal invasion tactics that secured Crimea for Russia in a NATO country, NATO would consider it a military attack.

"The most important work to prepare a nation for the problem of 'little green men', or organizing of Russian (speaking)population, it happens first. It happens now," Breedlove said in an interview published online by German newspaper Die Welt.

"How do we now train, organize, equip the police forces and the military forces of (allied) nations to be able to deal with this?" he said, according to a transcript of his remarks in English provided by NATO.

"If we see these actions taking place in a NATO nation and we are able to attribute them to an aggressor nation, that is Article 5. Now, it is a military response," he said.

One, no NATO state should be in the position of Ukraine, which confronted a subliminal invasion of "little green men" with security forces undermined by the pro-Russian administration that had just been tossed out of power.

Two, hopefully no nation in NATO lacks proper intelligence and counter-intelligence to battle the Russians who would need to prepare the battle space prior to initiating such and invasion.

NATO could help by having para-military national police, intelligence agents, and special forces ready to deploy to eastern NATO countries under such threat.

Three, don't forget that the traditional method of invading is just sending the tanks across the border and the planes flying overhead. Let's be prepared to meet that threat, too--either to stop the initial advance or to gather for the counter attack to liberate the land lost.

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.